May 7, 2002

Privacy Values Survey to be Conducted by NC State Researchers

Dr. Anton(Photo: Roger Winstead)

NC State University researchers are conducting an online survey about privacy
values. The survey is supported by a National Science Foundation Information
Technology Research grant. According to Dr. Annie L. Anton, assistant professor
of computer science and team leader for the project, “This survey will
help us establish an Internet privacy values baseline for correlation with our
privacy goal taxonomy to aid policy makers as well as software developers. Our
objective is to correlate factors related to people’s beliefs about privacy.”

The survey takes less than five minutes to complete. The public is encouraged
to participate. The results will be made available this summer on the project
website: http://theprivacyplace.org
.